- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 October 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 13 November 2014
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to implement deposit and return schemes under the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 to achieve its aim of zero waste.
Answer
We are carefully considering a range of options to improve collection rates for packaging and reduce the amount of this material that ends up as litter. A deposit and return scheme for beverage containers is one of the options being considered and we have commissioned an independent study on this.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 November 2014
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 19 November 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how it will use technology to improve access to primary healthcare services.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 19 November 2014
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 October 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 12 November 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how many people with autism aged (a) under and (b) over 18 have been sectioned under the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 in the last four years and how many were assessed in a hospital outside of (i) their NHS board area and (ii) Scotland, broken down by (A) NHS board and (B) location of hospital.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 November 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 12 November 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how many specialist mental health officers there have been in each local authority area in each of the last five years.
Answer
For each of the three financial years to 31 March 2012 information on the number of mental health officers in each local authority area was published on the Scottish Government’s website as part of the Mental Health Officers Survey.
2011-12: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2012/06/3674 (Page 17)
2010-11: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/06/27145626/0 (Page 18);
2009-10: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/08/30114721/0 (Page 16);
The Scottish Social Services Council now publishes this information in its Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report on a year to 31 December basis:
2013: http://data.sssc.uk.com/images/MHO/Mental%20Health%20Officers%20Report%202013.pdf (page 44)
2012: http://data.sssc.uk.com/images/publications/MentalHealthOfficersReport2012.pdf (Page 27)
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 October 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 12 November 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how many specialist mental health officers have been recruited in each of the last five years; what support local authorities receive to assist with recruitment, and what the Scottish Government has done to increase recruitment.
Answer
<>Information on the number of mental health officers recruited is not held centrally. However, the Scottish Social Services Council may hold this data for 2012 and 2013 and they can be contacted at:
[email protected].
Section 32 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 places a duty on local authorities to appoint a sufficient number of mental health officers to discharge functions under the relevant legislation. Whilst the Scottish Government sets national policy and provides funding, it is a matter for individual local authorities to decide on the number of mental health officers appointed in their area taking into account local needs and circumstances.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 October 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 12 November 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been sectioned under the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) age and (b) local authority area.
Answer
<>The information requested is not held centrally. The Mental Welfare Commission publishes (
http://www.mwcscot.org.uk/) statistical monitoring reports – the most recent being Mental Health Act monitoring 2013-2014 - which contain information on interventions under the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 which are reported to the commission.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 October 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 12 November 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how many children sectioned under the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 have been detained in non-specialist units in each of the last five years.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 October 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 11 November 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of the New Medicines Fund will be funded by the pharmaceutical industry rebate payment made through the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme.
Answer
The total £40 million commitment to the New Medicines Fund in 2014-15 is funded from Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme payments.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 October 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 11 November 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what the eligibility criteria is for medicines to be funded by the New Medicines Fund.
Answer
The New Medicines Fund provides additional support to NHS boards for the cost of medicines approved under the new process implemented by the Scottish Medicines Consortium in line with the Task and Finish Group report provided to me and published by the Health and Sport Committee and related individual and group patient treatment requests.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 October 2014
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 11 November 2014
To ask the Scottish Government whether medicines approved by the Scottish Medicines Consortium will be eligible for funding by the New Medicines Fund.
Answer
Yes, the expansion of the previous funding commitment means that the New Medicines Fund provides additional support to NHS boards for the cost of medicines approved under the new process implemented by the Scottish Medicines Consortium in line with the Task and Finish Group report provided to me and published by the Health and Sport Committee.